Published on 12, July, 2020
Just find the future looks so bleak at times I'm lucky as still live my parents I'm not high functioning and I'm just ASD. Struggle with understanding things like bills and budgeting I guess along with getting work. My disability isn't visible or one you can here so it's hard to exsplain it to regular people and get any understanding from them. Is there support you can get for when your parents eventually pass. There not going anywhere anytime soon luckily as there only in there 60's but I almost feel like I wouldn't know how to survive or cope without them. Suffer baddly from anxiety don't go out because of it that and I don't have ideal social skills so usually end up offending people not on purpose but because I can come across as as a bit blunt and opinated but the future genuinely terrifies me.
The future hasn't been made yet. When it arrives, it'll be now.
I've always pretty much lived in the moment, not thinking about the future a great deal. That's probably why I'm skint and have no retirement plans, something I'm working on right now, finally, and probably too late.
Due to some personal experiences, I learned early on that we could drop dead at any moment so there were no guarantees, only hopes. Live in the now. It's the only thing we've got. The future is what we create, so choose wisely.
Having said that, I'm Gen X, the best generation, the Slacker Generation, the apathetic nihilist generation, hahaha. I probably embraced those tropes a bit too much, but hey, why not?
Blackouts, winter of discontent, we had an outside toilet and no central heating, punk (yay), grapes were a luxury that you only got if you were sick, Reagan and Thatcher, the beginnings of greed as a 'positive' attribute, people thought Boy George was a strange looking woman. And, for quite a while, the very real possibility of nuclear annihilation.
Of course, there were many other terrible conflicts and social ills all around the world, and still are.
It was a wonderful time to be alive.
Nothing much changes, we are human.
But judging things from back then, NOW is a pretty good future. If we're careful, we could make the next future even better.
Yeah can relate to that I guess cause if you can't see a future you kind of live the moment rather than thinking about saving and budgeting I guess. Along with trying to make the most of it before you have to live you own and become skint like everyone ellse. Then you realise you probably do need start saving and being a bit more sensible about saving and putting stuff aside.war and the end of world doesn't frighten me I guess more the thoughts of sucide and taking my own life before time runs out I guess. Having a fairly phycnical mind set kind of feels like something I can't get out of. Probably more fed up about herring about climate change as that's the least of my worries.
Yeah, well...
I don't think I really care about many things, so I don't worry about many things. Take every day as it comes, with an eye to the future. Adapt when necessary. Decide where our levels of survival, comfort, and affluence are, and live/plan accordingly.
I think people tend to worry too much about stuff that isn't worth worrying about, while missing bigger picture stuff. Whatever that actually means.
Try to treat each individual with dignity and respect. Try to do the right thing on an individual level. But I don't spend much time worrying about stuff that isn't my responsibility or concern, or stuff I have zero control over.
But I've always viewed life as survival, as existing. Be in the shadows, be like water trickling through the cracks, be in the inbetween. Meander, be resilient, go with the flow. Decide your own path.
We're all daydreaming, exist—every last one of us, or rather, we are all being dreamed. And who wants to wake up from a beautiful dream? No one, not unless it becomes a nightmare. Then, we'd give anything t be woken up.
That, or I'm just a daydreaming oblivious fool
Meander, be resilient, go with the flow
very Zen
same here